Come on Cole – cowboy up, it’s not like you’re Cthulhu or Cantor or some hideous McConnell doppelganger. Use a bit of reverse psychology on ’em and get your mug in every shot you can, the less apropos the better – before long you’ll have the peace you were searching for all along.

@Southern Beale: I think it’s funny that he uses the term “generating”. He’s not just admitting that their base is angry white males, he’s admitting that they create them with their bullshit and propaganda.

If I remember correctly,a zombied out insomniac unshaven Cole staggered to some mirror in his house at 4 AM or some such god forsaken hour, snapped a pic that was so gnarly and scary, it looked like a poster for some upcoming horror pic.

Edit: and he posted that damn pic, that filled up the whole screen, damn near gave me a heart attack.

Can Cole look worse than that now? While basking in the glow of hot chicks galore (and Newell for whatever that’s worth)? WTF?

@Keith G: I dunno, I take khaki to be chinos(pants or shorts.) I don’t know crap about fashion. Almost anything can be a color. I was forced to look this up(I would do this only for BJ.) Khaki is an Indian word and it means both the color and the fabric.

The four of them look like a bunch of drunken Clemson tailgaters after the team didn’t lose by too much. They have gone southern. Can tractor pulls and NASCAR be far behind? Also how about a side trip to ole Billy Graham’s in Montreat to ask why NC’s holiest of Christian holies and psalm-singing hypocrite didn’t denounce any of America’s wars like Vietnam, Granada, Desert Storm, Iraq and the rest. The old “christian” fraud needs to get right with Jesus, here at last. Jim and Tammy Bakker’s wreckage is also around Charlotte somewhere, in receivership I think. There’s also got to be a Creationist Fun Park as well.

If I remember correctly,a zombied out insomniac unshaven Cole staggered to some mirror in his house at 4 AM or some such god forsaken hour, snapped a pic that was so gnarly and scary, it looked like a poster for some upcoming horror pic.

Oh fer cripes sake. I remember that night – after years and years of only getting teases of an arm out the window here, and pair of legs in front of the TV there – we finally got treated to The Full Cole. Major Cranky Face, too.

What’s left to hide anymore? Get a grip, dude! We love ya no matter whatcha look like!

Ah, for me, having JC as a national spokesperson is almost Heaven, though I know a lot of great writers who don’t translate to TV very good. *ahem* You know, first you have to be willing to get your picture taken a lot.

ABL has the sweetest, prettiest face especially given that she is supposed to be an angry lady. Clearly, she is going to have to beam that positive energy towards the Goopers so that they are totally confused by her positive rays and will be unable to vote for the Robot.

1. I can’t believe Romney is so lazy that he already taking time off from the campaign to recuperate.

2. I can’t believe that the Romney team is already throwing Ryan under the bus. It isn’t even mid-September yet.

Campaign professionals vetting Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as a potential Republican vice presidential candidate warned Mitt Romney‘s strategists that the Congressman had a “history of exaggeration and prevarication” that could become a campaign issue and distraction but the GOP presidential nominee’s team ignored the warnings.

Hey no shit! We can start bombarding MSNBC (electronically, of course) to let Cole and his Hareem on TV to express our views. (Our views? That’s fucking chaos incarnate.) Then we should push (electronically, of course) for them to make short statements at the Convention itself on live TV.

This looks like CYA to me — the lies Ryan told in his speech that finally jolted the corporate media awake were all pretty much repeats of lies Mitt or his campaign had already told. Romney’s got the true CEO gift of blaming someone else for what he’s done himself.

@askew:
Romney threw himself as Massachusetts’ governor under a bus. It should come as no surprise to aficionados of the Republicans’ Politics of Idiocy that they found another bus under which to throw Ryan. They threw his plan, the centerpiece of his bullshit career, under the first bus they could find

@mamayaga: They’re definitely throwing him overboard to try to salvage something after his convention lies so bombed, but I bet it’s also true that they argued about what a pathological liar he was known to be. The tossing overboard is in admitting that they knew.

@WaterGirl: Oh they’re the same lies that Romney tells, it’s just that Ryan has a way of going so overboard with the lying that even the sleeping news media woke up and took notice.

This is probably what was known to them about his reputation, plus it was probably known that he tended to do it about things like the marathon, that is, stupid little things that don’t gain anything, risk everything, but are the very hallmark of the compulsive liar.

Tired. In fact, I was just thinking about going to bed (early for me!). I think I have been having an accumulated reaction to all of the stress of the last couple of months. Lots of lassitude, accomplishing anything seems to take huge effort, so I’ve been letting myself slack off somewhat.

How you doin’? And how did you miss this Charlotte get-together? (Although I know you don’t do heat.)

Cole, stop being a narcissist. We know what you look like, so stop fishing for attention already. We know what ou look like and we’ll never love you as much as we love Lily and Tunch, so just stop negative-attention-seeking already.

@asiangrrlMN: Too bad you can’t make it into a fundraising contest where most pics full-face on a blog wins a donation to the Obama campaign in their name. Automatic win if they get one of John in a shirt that doesn’t have stripes on it.

@askew: That’s pretty interesting. I hope people are leaking about Ryan, but at the same time I don’t place that much trust in reporting that only appears in Capitol Hill Blue. If true, we should start to leaks elsewhere as well.

John, we all know what you look like. By the end of the DNC I wanna see a pic of you making out with ABL. That or you with your top off spinning it above your head (the latter would be quite amusing, although disturbing albeit for not-so-obvious reasons).

OK, so I’m an old fart, and my perception is a gazillion years out of date, but…once upon a time it would have been considered terribly insulting to women for men to cover their faces when they’re both appearing in the same photograph. I don’t care how cranky you are – learn some fucking manners.

The picture accompanying the Ryan piece in Capitol Hill Blue has a side facial view with his nose being the most prominent piece of the photograph. I think they’re trying to tell us something. A picture says a thousand words or however that saying goes.

Edit: Listening to a few minutes for a break from Biden. Uh, Oh, Obama is doing some heavy plugging of public school, importance of rabble rousing and those damn kids making noise. Commie! And now pandering to that special interest group, women.

Cover art using the style and tropes of totalitarian art to depict Romney and Ryan as a pair of fascists. The reason the pose and style are so reminiscent of Stalinist agitprop is that it is actually a Stalinist poster with faces changed to protect the innocent.

“Unsubtle”, you might say, but the *really* amusing part is that it’s for the cover of NR.

Hmm. I get what you’re saying in general, but since it’s already an established running joke on this trip that Cole covers his face every time ABL tries to take a photo of him, I think it’s pretty clear that’s why the guys are both covering their faces.

STILL amused/frightened by the ad for the Sarah Palin votive candle, I wonder what I’ve clicked on in the past that would make some computer think I woukd possibly want one. Maybe it was all those times I went to the site of Our Lady of Perpetual Idiocy.

@Sm*t Cl*de: God that’s awful. The sleeves are rolled up, but no signs that physical labor is going to be done. Ryan is going to read and Romney unfurl his plans. It’s comical. They just want to highlight veiny arms.

She told the magazine: “As far as I am concerned, Mitt Romney’s opposition to gay marriage and to civil unions for gays makes him anti-gay – which is not something that Philip would have supported. He had some wonderful gay friends, as indeed I do, and they deserve equal treatment in every respect, whether in Ireland or the United States.
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“Neither would Philip have supported his policy of taxing the poor and offering tax cuts to the rich, which Paul Ryan is advocating. There is certainly no way that I would want the Lynott name to be associated with any of those ideas.
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“There is nothing I can do about it except express my views,” Philomena Lynott added, “but I do want to be clear that I would not want Philip’s music to be used in any way that could hurt a single person, and this is the effect of what happened with Paul Ryan using and abusing my son’s music in that way. A lot of fans and musicians are very angry about it and I can fully understand why.
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I have a lot of time for Barack Obama, so to hear ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’ being appropriated by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in their campaign against him is deeply upsetting.”

I’m really surprised that some enterprising soul here at B-J hasn’t photochopped a couple of nazi flags into the background of that pic of John on his laptop at the desk with his hand blocking his face.

@Jay in Oregon: That is the modern CEO in a nutshell. That is why they hate hate hate Sarbanes-Oxley and want to get rid of it. Enron was only sad because someone had to go jail. Damn shame someone went to jail, that. That’s the type of stuff that just shouldn’t happen in the Rand world.